The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-03-31
RULES AND REGULATIONS

Adopted Dy the State Boar4 of Health
of Kentucky and Recommended for
Adoption, by County, City and Town
Boards of Health.
RULE 2. The health officer shall make
a sanitary survey Of the territory under
his Jurisdiction for the purpose Of ascer-
taining the conditions detrimental y the
public health, including In such survey,
swamp lands, stagnant ponds, imperfect
drainage, sewerage, cess-poolG, and wa.
ter-closets; the construction, ventilation
and drainage of public buildings, schools
houses, prisons, hospitals, eleemosynary
Institutions, snd such nnisanoes as might
prove detrimental to tho public health.
8. No privy vault, cefs pool of rpsers
voir, into which privy, water-oloset,
stable, or sink !. drained, except 1t be
water-tight, shall be permitted within a
hundred feet of any well, spring or other
source of water used for drinking or Gull
mary purposes.
! 4. Earth priyies, or earth closets, with
no vault below the surface of the ground,
shall be excepted in rule 3, but sufficient
dry earth or coal ashes must be used daily
to absorb daily al he fluid parts of the
deposit, and the entire content must be
removed monthly.
4 8. Allprivy vaults, cess pools or reser-
voirs named in rule three should be
cleaned out at least once year, md from
the lst of May to the LIST of November OF
each year shall have added to the con-
tents of the gGult once every month. one
, or two pounds of copperas, dissolved in
paiful of water.
: G. No priyy vault or cess-pool shall
: open into any stream, ditch or drain, ex-
cept common sewers.
Z. Within the limits Of any town (Which
area shall constitute health limita) no
night-soil or contents of cess-pools shall
be removed unless previously oeodorizcd
by mixing with solution Of eopperas, and
{ during removal the material shall be COW
| cred with a layer of fresh earth, except
4 the removal be by the "odorless excayat-
e ing process"
= s. All sewer drains thai pass within
fifty feet Of any source Of water used for
drinking or culinary purposes shall be
:, water-tight.
8. No sewer drain shall empty into any
pond or other source of water used for
: drinking or culinary purposes, nor into
: any standing water within the jurlsdic-
ton of this Board.
10. No garbage, materials manufacture
a ed in partor in whole of wool, leather
etc, or other materials which evolve Of,
q fensive gases dnring combustion, shall
i be burned within the limits of 4 town.
I'll IL. No house offal, dead animals, oil
q refsse of any kind shall be thrown upon
l. the streets or any alley or lett exposed
E by any person; and no butcher, fishmon'
J. ger or vender of merchandise of any
G kind. shall leave ally hind of refuse upor
- the streeta or in any alley, or uncovered
Of by earth upon the lots of this city; ant
= all putrid and decayed animal or yegeta
% hle matter must be removed from all eel
n lars and outbpildings on or before May
lst OF each year.
3 IL. All families, hotels, restaurants
u and others accommodating garbage, are re-
~ quired to have proper covered rccepta
Il Gle for swill and house offal, and tocaus'
:, the contents to be regularly removed n
! often rs twice week, between May Is
!, and November LIST, and once a week n
n all other seasons.
y 13. Between May lstand November Is
Il no hogs shall be kept within the limit
named in rule seven, except inpets witt
j. floors, kept entirely free from standing
N water, and regularly and freely disinfect
ed; and during the months named M
Is hogs shall be kept elsewhere within thu
n jurisdiction of this Board, within tiv,
hundred feet of any dwelling, except IL
pens with dry floors, or kept free from
3. standing water. This Board will orde
= the removal of such animals ut any tim,
when they appear to be prejudicial to TIN
pubic llbdlliiy suiCty Va Sohiioitt
Ia. No animal affected with an infec
tious or contagious disease shall b
brought or kept within the limits of tn
jurisdiction of the Board, except by per
mission OF the Board. No diseased AMI
NAL or its flesh, and no decayed, diseases
or unfit meat, fish, vegetables or fruit, o
diseased, impure or adulterated milk, o
other article shall be offered for sale a
TODD.
10. No slaughter house or abattoi
shall be established or used as such with
In the limits specified In rule seven, an
none elsewhere within the jurisdiction
this Board, unless kept free from all oh
noxious SMELLS and all offal removed ev
cry day; andno melting or rendering
house, and no place for manufacturing o
other business giving rise to obnoxiou
or injurious vapors or odors, shall be es
tablished or used MS such within the ju
a .;s,l,,.;,n of th;s Rnord eycont nv its spe